{"id":1016,"date":"2025-02-20T07:08:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T22:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2025-02-20T07:08:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T22:08:31","slug":"things-employers-should-keep-in-mind-when-hiring-foreigners-from-an-article-in-saga-shimbun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/?p=1016","title":{"rendered":"Things employers should keep in mind when hiring foreigners (from an article in Saga Shimbun)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Saga Shimbun article<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saga-s.co.jp\/articles\/-\/1411242\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">Indonesian man re-arrested on suspicion of violation of Immigration Control and Refugee Act Saga Minami Police Station (Saga Shimbun 2025-02-18)<\/a>  is summarized as follows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the 18th, Saga Minami Police Station re-arrested a 40-year-old Indonesian national on suspicion of violating the Immigration Control and Refugee Act (activating activities other than that permitted under the status of residence granted). The man is suspected of having been engaged in nori cultivation work in Saga City without permission, despite having a &#8220;designated activity&#8221; residence status. He had previously been arrested for violating the same law (using a fake residence card) for showing a fake residence card to his employer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Things employers should keep in mind when hiring foreigners<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Check residence card<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Please refer to our blog article (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/?p=597\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">Regarding counterfeiting of residence cards (things that employers should be aware of<\/a>)) which also describes the minimum things that employers should do, such as using a counterfeit card checking app, and the possibility that employers may be charged with a crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Recommended written oath<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, in order to minimize the risk of employers being charged with a crime, we recommend the use of a &#8220;written oath&#8221; in this blog article (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/?p=840\">When hiring foreigners, ask them to fill out a written oath<\/a>). Please also take a look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Japan Immigration News<\/h2>\n\n\n<ul class=\"is-grid columns-2 has-dates has-authors wp-block-rss\"><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/www.sbs.com.au\/news\/article\/australias-student-visa-crackdown-hits-record-highs\/xi9s1oek9'>Australia&#039;s student visa crackdown hits record highs \u2014 what it means for who gets in<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-05-03T09:00:00+09:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">2026-05-03<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by SBS News<\/span><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/japannews.yomiuri.co.jp\/editorial\/insights-world\/20260501-325231\/'>Find a Long-Term Fix for the Issue of Immigration<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-05-01T09:00:00+09:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">2026-05-01<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Japan News<\/span><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/www.newstalkzb.co.nz\/on-air\/mike-hosking-breakfast\/audio\/marcus-beveridge-queen-city-law-managing-director-on-visa-rejection-rates-falling-to-a-post-covid-low\/'>Immigration NZ praised for running a &#039;tight ship&#039; as visa rejection rate falls<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-05-01T09:00:00+09:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">2026-05-01<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Newstalk ZB<\/span><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/www.azernews.az\/region\/257838.html'>Tokyo\u2019s labour crunch fuels fastest immigration shift in decades<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-05-01T09:00:00+09:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">2026-05-01<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by AZER NEWS<\/span><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/unseen-japan.com\/japan-visa-ethnic-restaurants-closing\/'>Japan\u2019s New Visa Rules Are Forcing Tokyo\u2019s Immigrant-Run Restaurants to Close<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-04-30T09:00:00+09:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">2026-04-30<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Unseen Japan<\/span><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saga Shimbun article Indonesian man re-arrested on suspicion of violation of Immigration Control and Refugee Act Saga Minami Police Station (Saga Shimbun 2025-02-18) is summarized as follows. On the 18th, Saga Minami Police Station re-arrested a 40-year-old Indonesian national on suspicion of violating the Immigration Control and Refugee Act (activating activities other than that permitted &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/?p=1016\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Things employers should keep in mind when hiring foreigners (from an article in Saga Shimbun)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activities-other-than-permitted","category-residence-card","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017,"href":"https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions\/1017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}